Mayor Scott Fadness told those assembled at the Fishers Jarden building about what happened when the same structure was first occupied by Sony Corporation when Fadness was Fishers Town Manager. When he was informed the facility would be a distribution center for compact discs (CDs), Fadness knew Sony would not be in the building for long. He was right.
After many years being vacant, the (then) Town of Fishers & Jarden announced about a year ago plans to remodel and occupy the old Sony facility. On July 17th, there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Mayor Fadness, Jarden President and CEO Chris Scherzinger and most of the Fishers Jarden staff. An area thunderstorm forced the cutting of the ribbon to be moved indoors.
A tour of the building reveals a large remodeling job estimated to be about $22 million for the 635,000 square foot building. Jarden employs 245 people at the Fishers operation and plans to up that total to 300 by 2019.
